THE OMAHA The omaha Daily Bee E. ROSEWATEIt, EDITOR. rCUUSHED EVEnV MORNING. TERMS OE SUBSCRIPTION. Ually Hefc (without Sunday, One lear.K.QO Dully lite and Sunday. One Mar S.JO illustrated He. One Vear -" Sunday Hee. One Ytar 2 Saturday B One Ytar i f' Twentltth Century Farmer, One iear.. l.w OFFICES: Omaha: The Uec Building. South Omaha: City Mall HUlldlng, Twenty-fifth and M streets. Council Muffs: I') l'ear! Street. Chicago. 16l I'nlty Building. New York. Ternpie Court. Washington. M Fourteenth Street. COHRESPONDBNCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter should b addressed: omana Hit. Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS JJutlnets Mtcru and rtmlttn. hou'11 bo addressed: The Bee 1'ubllshlng Com pany, Omaha. . , REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order IMable to The Bee Publishing Compan. Oi.iy J-ccnt stamps accepted In payment 01 mart accounts. Personal rh-cks. except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, nnt accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s.: Oeorge B. Tzschuck. secretary of J he Bee PublUnlng Companj, being duly "wo"1 suya that the actual Lumber of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during ine monm 01 auru, isu, 1... 2 2 4 b 6 7 t t 10 II 12 13 11 IS , ....Utl.'JTO ....u:i,ruo ....vu.shii ....au,-M .....lO.OltO ....su.uso . ..L'li.ntu ....7,111)1) ....'MAIM ....a,iso ....;in,.-.:iu ....US.IMJO ,...;;s,ois ....:!-', :ioo IS,... 17.... IS.,.. 19.... 20.. .. 21.... 23 21 25 2C 27 2S 23 CO ..'Jt?,U3U ..'J7.TOO ,,a7,(40 . .It7, HOI) ..i!7.0 ..!iM,U- . ,a7,UUW ..UT.USO ..a7,7S' ..J7, 100 ..7,." to . .St'.SUU ..M,37B . .iiT.oao ..S7,3l Total b57,sOI Less untold and returned copies.... lii.aul Net total sales M.-.r.iW Net dally average !it,l3 GEO D. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of May. A. D. Wil. M. B. II UNGATE. Notary Public. Governor XhpIi of Ohio oeoms to have boon literally railroaded through Omaha. Over 0,00ft vwlrllnss in this state last year. Mnniitco, like every other legiti mate enterprise, U n. success In Nebraska. The May corner In corn has taken a drop, but the decline Ik not likely to af fect farmers In the corn belt, who have. long since parted with most of their crop. Don't fonret that 099 men have struck oil by applying themselves persistently and Intelligently to their own business to every one who has come out ahead of the speculation mania. Some one asks why Omaha does not furnish music In the parks. The ques tion Is to the point, but as It Is solely a question of money to pay the musi cians it Is up to the park board to answer. The score of a piece of music which has been missing for 'J0 years has been fouud In the English Royal Acad emy of Music. A search of the hand organs would probably have revealed it long ago. THE FUTURE OF rOMU tllCO. The cnthunl.ntlr populnr reception 2lven Governor Allen on bin return to Porto Itlco may fairly be recorded n evidencing the satisfaction of the peo ple with American rule and with the governmental system provided by con press for the Island. There have been oms complaint in regard to the American administration of affairs and there are people In Porto Itleo who want a territorial form of government such as there Is In the United Hfate. It ha been charsed that under our rule conditions In the Maud have not been materially If at nil Improved. Hut the demonstrative welcome to Governor Allen on his nrrlvnl at San .luan. which was participated In by delegations from other parts of the Island, conclusively showed that the people generally are well satisfied and that the fault-Under are a small ml- uoilty. Still it Is undoubtedly a fact that conditions In Porto Hlc6 can be im proved and that lf a subject which the next congres will bo called upon to seriously consider. As to the form of government. Governor Allen In his annual report expresses the opinion that rongress went as far n It could safely venture In providing the exist ing ystem and that under it there will be a more rapid development In all respects than can be attained under any other form of government. Whether or not the existing system will Ih- continued, however, depends upon the decision of the supreme court of the United States as to the political status of Porto Itlco. That decision may make It necessary for congress to give the Island the same territorial form of government we have here and thus put Porto Itlco In the way of ultimate statehood. Should the decision not requite tills doubtless the existing form of government, with perhaps Mime modlik-atlonrf, will be maintained. In regard to what shall be done for the Industrial and commercial develop ment of Porto Hlco. the only sugges tion of Governor Allen Is "the Intro duction of fresh blood and Anglo-Saxon push and energy." This would effect much, undoubtedly, but there must be an Inducemeut to obtain It. If capital will not now go to Porto Hico, If Amer ican enterprise is not now being di rected toward the island, what can be done to attract apltal and enterprise there nnd Introduce fresh blood, push and energy? It Is a question not easily answered. The fact Is that while Porto Hlco Is fe-tllo nnd highly productive, with an abundance of cheap labor, such as It Is. there Is better promise of re ward for capital and enterprise else where. Therefore development will be slow, because It must depend lorgely upon local capital and enterprise. In the event of the products of Porto Rico lielng given free entry to the United States, as Is quite possible, doubtless some American capital would lie In vested In the Island, but that the amount would be sulHclent to greatly stimulate development Is doubtful. In any event, however, conditions in Porto Hlco will Improve and there Is reason to lielleve thHt In the not remote future the Island will have as great a measure of prosperity as It has ever known. to prevent the consummation of this Imposition and to test the validity of the listing with the state board, the county will be the loser by thousands of dollars In the course of years. Not only that, but the precedent, once estab lished, will b followed by other bridge nnd railway companies whoe lines are wholly within Douglas county. In connection with this action the board of commissioner Should Investi gate the cause of the decline of the a tessment roll where millions of dollars of Improvements are known to have been made but not returned for taxa tion. Nobody wants to do these tax shirking corporations Injustice, but the people have a right to Insist that they bear their due proportion of tax burdens Imposed upon property owners generally. DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, "MAY 25, 1901. round till frightened almost to death This sort of thing Is called horseplay a term which does great Injustice. Horses have more tente than to play In that fashion. A OUtln juUtieil Kmniplr. Indianapolis News. Those people that think the Cubans are slow about coming to a vote on the Piatt resolution should recall to mind the delays that occur In the United States senate. Trnty n Oreajl ('nnntrj, Philadelphia Frtss. Federal surplus to date this year. JM.047 -04. This is great country. It has a OTIIRtl LAM) TIIA.N OtHS. One of the puttie of the Transvaal war has been the comparatively Insignificant ef fectso far as the destruction of Roer life vat concerned of the British artillery. 0tr and over again was the story told of hostile positions searched by a fire de scribed as absolutely withering, until It seemed Impossible that there could be a single square foot of ground that had hot been reac enemy cou terrific showers of Iron hall. And yet the sturdy Boers, on many different occasions, endured the bombardment with small dam age to themselves, nnd used their rifles with Fl.XTO.VS PLAI.N Aitotvr. Fnct Abotit the rupture "f Aftulnriltlo that IJo "t l.ooU Well. Detroit Jturnnl General Funston s personal and official account to the War department of tbn cap ture of Agulnaldo will not add to his tame Rather, It will tend to lessen admiration for the manner In which the capture was made. If we concede that the forged lei jare iuoi 01 kiuuuu uji imu nv - ..... .... .,ii... Hrir. hed by shot or shell, or that any ter by which Blnaldo u'10" "c" ,uld survive the descent of such allyd Justifiable used to come near to the chieftain that do .am,. i.ih.M . ...mli.s: despotism the customary deadly effect, long after their and deficits these go together. rtiAM Uisr.s ;a ccba. By resolution of congress the govern ment Is not permitted to grant any concessions or franchise" In Cuba, in apparent violation of this a railway syndicate Is constructing a road In the Island and an Interesting lecnl tight Is promised, Instituted by Cubans who are said to be backed by New York capital ist". What Is known as the Cuba com pany, of which the president of the Canadian Pacific railroad I" the head and a number of American capitalists are members. wa organized over a year aco ami purchased lauds In Cuba for railroad purposes. The road It l now constructing Is to extend through the most populou nnd best developed por tions of the Island and there Is no question thnt It would be of great serv ice In Improving Industrial and com- nietclal conditions in Cuba. The opposition to the company Is doubtless due to capitalists who would like to secure n railway franchise In the territory through which the Cuba company Is buildlnc. but however this may be It Is possible that a good case . t . . a . . I can in- made againsi ine company, u the statements ninde by the parties In stituting the proceedings are well founded, It does not appear that our government Is any way involved in the matter, since It has granted no concession. As both parties to the con test have large capital the legal battle will probably be prolonged and par ticularly Interesting to the Cuban peo ple. Of course there Is it chance of compromise und also that the oppo sition may be bought off. Too Mnch of n (innil Thing. Baltimore American. Japan has taken a breathing spell from the strenuous life of modern International complications long enough to Indulge In the mild diversion of a cabinet crisis. That now stems to be the accepted way of work ing off surplus national steam. The excit ing nature of such a crisis may satisfy poll tics, but It would never pass muster In a melodrama. An Alti-Red Curr-All. New York World. Governor Allen says that the remedy for Porto Rlcan conditions Is "the Introduction of fresh blood and Anglo-Saxon push and energy." But he docs not explain Just how his remedy will change the enervating cli mate. And until that Is changed Governor Allen's remedy Is about as effective as would be a scheme for making the polar regions Inhabitable by a system of outdoor steam heating. Art for Art's SUe. Buffalo Express. What principle of the exposition color scheme was It that required green Hons to ornament the sunken garden? H seems rather Incongruous that a sculptor should study carefully to make a model of a Hon which should faithfully represent nature, on' a somewhat enlarged scale, and then a painter should come and give the Hon such an Impossible color as green. Of course, It may be argued that a green Hon Is Just as faithful to nature as the white Hon turned out of the staff shop, but then a white lion Is Just a plain cast and a green Hon looks like an attempt to surpass both .art and nature. Now It Is Italy which threatens to send war ships to Turkey to enforce respect for Its rights. Unless the Hultan soon mends his ways he will be entertnlnlng practically all the navies of the world. Sir Thomas Llpton Is to be com mended for his grit in going ahead with his yacht after Its unfortunate scries of accidents. If It required nothing more than pluck to win the cup he would surely get It. An American woman Is charged with having looted the china closet of the empress of China. The contents of a Mother Hubbard's cupboard were doubtless all that were left when the woman's turn to grab arrived. A New York game wntden has found enough birds In n cold storage plant to run the pcualty for keeping them out of season up to .?1.000.000. Possibly that game warden Is trying to jilnch the Omaha men's corner on quails. Tfio ambassadors of Turkey to va rious countries threaten to strike un less their salaries are paid. They should be content with residence abroad without b.ilary, for their heads aro safe when out of reach of the sultan. Emperor William has ordered report ers to be barred hereafter when he Is making a speech. It might be sug gested that an official summary of his remarks be prepared for the press a eort of transformer, to reduce the high tension current, so it will not be dangerous. I'ltOMOTltG cual Exronrs. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, when advo eating the policy of putting an export tax on British coal, declared that there was no reason for apprehending that the effect of such a iollcy would be to stimulate the exportation of coal from the United States. There are In dicatlops that the Euglish chancellor of the exchequer was mistaken In this view. The New York Times says the coal trade of the United States is watching with Interest the outcome of a plan to.ghlp coal In large quantities from this country to the French market. It ap pears that two companies have been organized to exploit the project and though the plan has not been fully feet tied those having knowledge of It ex press no doubt that It will be carried out. One of the parties concerned In the enterprise Is quoted as saying that more than sixty of the most promluent Amerlean Iron and coal dealers arc In terested In It nnd that the capital In volved amounts to ?.'0,fX0.000 or $60, 000,000. The fact that British shippers now charge more for coal delivered In France than Americans charge would seem to settle the question as to the practicability of establishing a large trade lu coal with that country, If the quality of American coal shall prove satisfactory, aud there appears to be no doubt on this score. The functions of a newspaper are manifold, but there are limits beyond which It Is unreasonable as well as Im pertinent to exiect It to go. A news paper Is presumed to turn the search light of publicity uon public officials and Institutions that are Intimately con nected with the public welfare. In the discharge of this function a newspaper becomes n public detective agency, grand Jury and prosecuting attorney combined. A newspaper is expected to advocate aud champion enterprises and projects thnt promote the growth and prosperity of city, state aud nation. In times of distress or calnmlty It should hold Itself ready to assist In bringing relief by appeals to popular sympathy, but It Is unreasonable to expect a news paper to act as general solicitor and employment agency. It is not reason able either that ft uewspaper shall nun doze and club Its patrons Into contrib uting to public enterprises any more than the grocer, the baker or the de-nnitmi-nt store nronrletor. As an Indi vidual the editor may propeny join With other citizens In passing the lint or the subscription paper. Such work Is no part of the duty he owes to the public any more than It Is his duty to procure work for Idle men and women. The notice that prosecutions Involv ing ex-Unlted States omciaiH now pending In Cuban courts, must be tried at an early date Is evidence that the American authorities anticipate a speedy termination of American occu pation and control of the Island. If the Cubans had been as expeuiuous iu rhllllp nn n Phllnnthroplnt. IndlanHpolls Journal. Mr. Phillips, the corn cornerer, attempts to pose as a philanthropist because he safely engineered his scheme to send corn kiting Into the oOs. He claims that he has put money Into thn farmers' pockets, This It possible la .a limited extent, but the probability Is that the middlemen made the profits rather than the farmers. At best the advance was artificial, but It had the effect to cut down the exports of corn one-half and to send purchasers to Argcn tine to purchase It. Rut this fooling with prices by speculation will have a tendency to drive exporters of corn out of our mar ket and this will cause a settling away of prices, since an export of from 3.000,000 to f.000,000 bushels a week must help the price. theoretical annihilation. An explanation of the mystery, perhaps, may be found In the ' report of a German officer who was at Splon j Kop. and was compelled, with thirty of his men, to lie for hours Deninti a low- wan, while the British pounded them with shrap nel, The aim of the artillerists was perfect, nd the shells exploded at exactly the right moment, but only one man was killed, sim ply because, owing to some defect In the casing, the bullets, Instead of scattering In all directions, flew straight on. In a body, harmlessly over their heads. Later on, he found large numbers of the shrapnel cases on the scene of action, and not one of them had burst properly. Apparently the Brlthh ammunition was as poor In quality as it was, according to Mr. Balfour, short In quantity. On the outbreak of the Boxers the French were obliged to suspend their operations In Yunnan, the Chinese province, lying to the north of Nanking, and to retire to their own undisputed territory. M. Doumer. the governor general of tndo-Chlna, is now In Paris with the object of Inducing his gov ernment to make n strong effort to ac quire Yunnan. Inspired by hlra, It is be lieved that one of the first demands of the French government on China will be for the return of the French consul general In an honorable fashion to Yunnan Foo, the capital of the province, with increased guaranties for the construction of the rail ways so summarily Interrupted In 1900, and that this policy will find its logical and practical Issue In the absorption of Yunnan by France. The capital of the nrovlnce Is said to be one of the most beautiful towns In southern China, partlcu larly from an architectural point of view- It Is surrounded by a lofty wall aurmounted by a parapet, which forms the chief prome nade of the place. The wall Is nearly four miles In length and varies In height from twenty-three feet to fifty feet, and In breadth from nineteen feet to twcnty-thre feet. The town contains the Golden Palace, which was the pagoda of the Chief Won Sankwel. who In the seventeenth century defied the Manchus, The building contain! a gigantic statue of Buddha and the stair cases nnd balustrades are In marble and the columns In bronte. The roof Is constructed of copper, and this, with the golden wood work, gives the palace Its name. TRUSTS AXI1 THE LABOR MARKET, Can thr Kormrr Sucrrxnf all Control he I.nttorr New York Independent There has been a vast amount of specu latlon among economists and students of social science as to the future relations of the great Industrial combinations and the labor organizations. Thus far nothing like uniformity In these relations has developed nor have the so-called "trusts" so far as outsiders know marked out for themselves any definite line of policy In this respect. Some great corporations will not tolerate unionism. The Carnegie company and the Colorado Fuel and Iron company have been conspicuous examples of this. Many others have dealt with their .workmen through the unions and still others have ,dealt with them Individually, never asking whether the men were organized or not. There has been much of opportunism on both sides and doubtless there will be to the end. But the formation of the big trust marks the flna elimination of the sentimental element in the relations of employer and employe. Thenceforth it Is purely a question of busl nets, with only such concessions on eitbe side as are dictated by enlightened self Interest. There are those that believe that the "trust" in productive industry will mean about the same condition there that exists In the transportation field, where enormous railroad corporations have long been in control. Railroad managers do not longer decline to meet committees of the organiza tions of their employes and discuss wages and conditions of labor and enter Into agreements with tham. At the same time the organizations of railroad employes have not make pleasant rtadlng. General Funs ten says that when eight miles from Agul naldo' caran the food of the Americans and their allies became exhausted, and a j messenger was sent to Agulnaldo, Inform ing him of the fact, and that the natives t had with them American prisoners. The food was supplied and word returned that the Americans be given their liberty. The whole party then went Into Agulnaldo' re treat when this followed, according to Gen eral Funston's report "The men who posed as officers of our expedition paid their respects to Agulnaldo. who received them In a large house built on the bank of the Palanan river After tho exchange of courtesies, the officers ex cused themselves from Agulnaldo and his staff for a moment, stepped outside and ordered their' Macabebe troops drawn up Into line and commanded them to com mence firing Into Agulnaldo' troops." As some of the enemy were killed, and a Ftlnston does not say that any demand for surrender was made, thl Is enough like cold-blooded murder to make the unpleasant reading we referred to. Conceding that It was highly desirable to capture Agulnaldo, nevertheless we could wish It had bfen done In manner to indicate that the Fili pinos had not the advantage of us in an exhibition of humanity. The circumstance were such that Ftlnston and hit men had to hnve food, they also had to go on and complete the work they had set out to do, and w hich required courage of a high order. But persons not In the business of killing as a regular occupation will gag a little. we think, at Funston's bald recital of the firing Into Agulnaldo' troops without so much as a warning demand for surrender. It was too much like shooting deer or a more dangerous animal through the bars of a zoo. POLITICAL 111! I FT. nromotlng the end the Cuban republic rapidly grown more conservative, until now would have been an accompiisneu met before this time. The St. Louis graud Jury has returned another batch of Indictments against democratic politicians and ward work ers. Democrats are not talking so much about their victory In that city hh they did Just after election. Tho sugar has dissolved from the surface of tho pill nnd left a bad taste In the mouth. It may be unfortunate that Omaha has been deprived of competition among bidders for laying asphalt pavement, but that Is no reason down-town busi ness streets subject to constant and continuous traffic should be left almost Impassable for want of repairs. Our business men should not be needless 8Ufferern from dissensions of warring paving contractors trying to hold one another out of a Job. One way to get at the value of the grounds offered for a state fair site would be to look Into tho assessment put on them for taxation. But In all probability they were never assessed for taxation, the owners taking advan tage of the exemption in favor of prop erty used for agricultural fairs, not withstanding the fact that several sea eons slipped past Llncolu without the nnuual pumpkin show, , DUIT OF THE COUXTV HOARD. The attempt to list the property of the East Omaha Bridge aud Terminal company as railroad mileage for the purpose of evading Its assessment and taxation by the county calls for action on the part of the Board of County Commissioners. It is well known that the bridge and terminal company is capitalized at $3,000,000. Assuming that one-halt of Its property Is lu Iowa, although In fact two-thirds Is In this couuty, the lowest fair valuation of bridgo aud terminals would be not loss thnn $1,000,000. As sessed nt one-tenth of this figure, which Is far below the ratio of valuation of other property ou the county lists, the assessment should be not less than $100,000. Instead of that, the couuty has had the East Omaha bridge as sessed for years at $7,000, and tinally through successive reductions as low as $4,000. Not content with this rank favoritism, the managers are attempting to evade the plain letter of tho law by llstlug tho tracks nnd terminals with the State Board of Equalization. Tho statute regulating railroad assessments ex pressly provides that only railroads that extend Into more than one county shall be assessed by the staf? board The fact that the eastern terminus of the bridge company's line Is In Iowa cannot be construed as bringing it within the scope of railroads assessable by the state board. Manifestly, unless the county board takes decisive action Former Governor Tnnuer of Illinois, who has Just died suddenly, was the subject of many hard-fought political contests, bringing him warm menus and bitter enemies. Whatever may tie said for or against him, Omaha should have a sympathetic spot for him on ac count of his friendly services In behalf of the Omaha exposition Just at the time his assistance counted for most. The tendency to convert Decoration day Into a day for sports and popular entertaluments Is to be deprecated. It Is all very well to have horse races ana base ball matches on the Fourth of July nnd other national holidays, but It is a desecration of Memorial day to give It up to public amusement because busl ness Is suspended and the workshops are closed. The ttve West Point cadets dismissed from the academy bavo been given eood nosltlons by a big corporation. Their bitter experience can be turned to good account In tho affairs or Hie, but thev should not take the prompt ness with which they have been taken care of as an Indication that they can pose lu the role of martyrs. The State Board of Public Lands and Buildings Is to be commended for Its firm refusal to yield to the pressure for an excessive price for the purchase of the proposed stato fair grounds. So fnr as we can learn Judges of realty values In Lincoln regard $15,000 as ample for the property. A ucw system of ventilation which secures a better circulation of air has beeu tleslgued for the house of repre sentatives. Since the retirement of Bepresentntlves Lentz and Bailey It iieems to have been found necessary to resort to artificial means to keep the air niovluc Inaultln the llorac. Chicago Tribune. A man In Wavtrly, la haa been lying In a stupor for saveral days ae a result of nn Initiation Into a seerot seclety, He was trapped to a whal and whirled round and the men in charge of the business of tho engineers, conductors, trainmen and other branches are recognized as level-headed And conservative business men. Worklngmen have lost nothing of their organized power through the consolidation of great railroad systems. But it Is worth while to remem ber that a railroad mutt run every day. The United States Steel corporation finds itself owning mils that exclude union men, mills that are controlled In their employ ment of labor by union scales and union rules, and mills where no discrimination is made. What policy will It pursue? It is such a gigantic combination, the men In control of it are so generally recognized as leaders In American enterprise, that it Is quite likely that the smaller "trusts" will follow It in Its policy toward organized labor. In Its first labor dispute that at McKeesport a few daya ago It yielded practically every point In controversy. The men largely Interested in its control havo twice yielded to the demands of the an tbracite miners. This looks like a liberal policy, but, as a matter of fact, it Is op portunlsm anything to get along until the- present condition of business, with the de mand for Its products exceeding the supply, can be fully met and profited by. There Is no defense against labor de mands like warehouses full of finished pro ducts. Tho strike or lockout Is a trial of endurance. Can the workman do without wages longer than the manufacturer can do without new product? If the laborer have money In his purse, he can fight; It the manufacturer have hit warehouses and yards full of the product of his workshop, he is well fortified. The potential force of conditions Is very great here, as else where. Where both sides are equally strong or equally weak there may be a struggle, but where the strength of one greatly ex ceeds that of the other a contest Is un likely. The giant steel corporation Is pliant now. for ltt stock on band Is low. But H will catch up with the demand in time The "trust" tendency will continue. And the trust can meet and largely control the labor situation. Yet the labor leaders look on the "trutt" movement complacently and drjam of the coming socialism. They may be right. It hat become dangerous to declare that any man's dreams of Indus trial evolution are wild and Impossible In the last resort the decision of affairs always lies In force. A people may do with its rich men as it pirates, though this Job Is not nearly to easy as handling Its poor men. If the great majority of the Amerl can people shall determine that tho regula tlon of wages and all other conditions of labor should He with the state, thn state will reulatp them. Put, under present conditions of law the "trust" will soon have the position of vantage In any general labor struggle that may ante. It Is understood In tho Russian War office that the minister of war, General Kouropatkln, has formulated n plan, the ob Ject of which Is to Induce Servla to con cludo a secret military convention with Kussla. According to a usually trustworthy source of Information this convention would Include not only stipulations for co-opcra tion, in certain contingencies, of the Ser vian army with that of Russia, but also specifies certain political advantages to be accorded to Servla. Ever since King Alex ander's marriage and since the removal of the late King Milan there has been a con stantly growing tendency on tho part of Servla to surrender herself to tho protec tion of Russia. This tendency, first finding expression In the satisfaction felt in St. Petersburg, has of late aroused widespread comment In European diplomatic circles. One feature of the convention Ih that Ser via Is to undertake, at the Instigation of Russia, the distribution of troops in the north of Servla, where the basis of oper ations would be the Danube and the Save Thus, as soon aa Russia begins to mobilize Servla will undertake, In certain clrcum stances, to mobilize also, and take the field when ordered to do so by the Russian commander In chief. In order to avoid de lay in cither case Servla Is to be provided by Russia with the requisite material as slstance. On the other hand, the Inde pendence of the kingdom of Servla Is to be guaranteed by Russia, and Russian support Is to be given to Servian claims In so far as they are In accord with the Berlin treaty and as long as Turkey retains Its European possessions. In case of any par tltion of the European possessions of Tur key. Servla la to obtain an extension of territory In the Sandjak of Novl Bazar and part of Macedonia. On the Initiative of tho French minister of Marine, Admiral Besson baa begun to establish carrier pigeon posts ai principal points In the English channel, the bay of Biscay, and the French shore of the Med. terranean, Thete posts will be In working order by summer, nnd it Is expected that they will be rendered almost self-support' lng In a few years, as peculiar induce' ments will bo offered to steamship lines, coasting vetsels and yachtsmen to utlllzo them. Already the birds have been used extensively In experimenting on the French Transatlantic line, and on naval vessels, with pronounced success. Tho first ex tenslvo pigeon post haa been In operation at Marseilles for three years. It hits SOO breeding establishments, which contain about 2,600 old blrdt. Tho French Medi terranean squadron Is to be provided with number of these pigeons, which from time to time will be liberated, and thus become accustomed to the "fly" that Is ex. pectcd of them. In June tho pigeon service will be extended to thn mall boats running to Corsica and Algeria. It la expected that these experiments will produce excellent results, aa tho Mediterranean Is generally free from gales and violent storms, and no sea la better suited for pigeon travel; It Is expected during the coming summer that yachtsmen of southern France, ns well aa thoio of northwestern Italy, will avail theraselvefl of the pigeons of the Cote d'Azur, when cruising between Marseilles and Naples, to send little messages to their friends on shore. The republican stale convention In Ohio to nomlnnte n candidate for governor has been called to meet in Columbus on Jnne 24. Hon. John O. Carlisle takes a citizen's Interest In good government and announces his readiness to help tnke a fall out of Tammany nt the next election. Henry Wnttcrson renews his declarations In favor of annexing everything In sight and says: "The democratic party will not be found bellowing at the sight of blood." Inquisitive Philadelphia papers want to know- why the legislature of Pennsylvania Insists on appropriating 15,000,000 for a new state capltol which the architect says will not cost to exceed $4,000,000. Considering the history of the Philadelphia city hall, the Quaker City should Joyfully concede a million for trimmings and be thankful for getting off so cheap. The attorney general of the territory of Hawaii has pnllghtcned the legislature on the subject of steamship free passes. If such passes ore tendered with corrupt In- ; tent, or if members accept them ns com- i pensatlon for legislative favors, the legal ' luminary holds they are bribes. If the Intentions of both parties are good and , purr the statutes do not apply. ' HOT MltlT AT PAM'llO.V The Trnlllnn MUrl fix UlitmlniUiii of l)lrnr. Philadelphia Press One thing that might well have receiel some expert attention at the tuberculot congress In New York Is the trailing skr nuisance. No better agent for the collectK u and dlitcinlnatlon of germs could U Imagined. From out of homes Infected w.-. consumption the trailing skirt carries i disease-causing bacilli Into the sire, public halls and conveyances, where n obliging draperies of other women swe. them up and retransfer them to homes h yet Invaded by disease, but which in t, become foci for Infection. This deadly round goes on simply t cause women are stilt the slaves of hurf fashions. The thort skirt for tne ttrei has Indeed made Its way Into popular) on rainy days, but for the most part It wo: by those who, by the general conditions t' life, arc protected from the Invasion of dis eate germs. Moreover, on rainy da though the trailing skirt Is an offense to tl eye of man, and one would think Its t-r draggled lengths worried It owners, p . not such a germ gatherer as on dry d since the germs are washed aay by b rain In the air and on the pavement. " clar days, however, the short skirt has I no means a following even among womer who appreciate Its value In stormy weather and the trailing garment rule supreme If the average woman could be hown n the laboratory In culture tubes and und" the microscope the varied flora of dlsmse causing germs that her trailing skirts carry and stir up In the street and at home she would marvel that the ex survived. Irlrr normal condition of health the human economy doe resist germs of all kinds, but this Is no reason for spreading them in public or carrying them to home whcri' In the case of the family or In the r of the Individuals, by reason of physical and social conditions, the vitality Is low ered beyond the resisting point. In th light of bacteriology the trailing skirt is a crime against the public good and ouc" to be suppressed. I'oi.vrun i'li:asatrii:. Philadelphia Press: "Say. I toM Mn Boston man my llsli story, and nil he sa 1 was 'Kindly nllght.- What did he mean "Oh. that's Just his way of saying 'cor -off.' " Detroit Journal: The heroes are not o dead. It I still possible to hire a mai i' rldo backward nnd look Impassive in a trap driven by n woman. Chicago Tribune: The Surgfon-We shall have to operate for the removal of or appendix vermlfornil. , Chronic Croaker W hat . the good f that? I'd grow another one. Ohio State Journal: Mrs. FIJIt-Why clofsn t .Mr. Smlthcrs come to our house any more? .... , Mr. FIJIt I can't Imagine: I m sure I a -wrtvs tried to entertain him by the m'' things our baby does. too. Washington Star: "I never take i" vantHge of anybody who I not ready tnke advantage of someone else, said the Wnll xtreet manipulator "Shak hands." said the stranger, Impu slvely. "Those are my sentiments precise y I'm u green goods man." Detroit Journal: 1 courted Death up"" the field of battle. "What' right before everybody?' glc gled Death, and shrank away. I was mortified, but not too proud to !3k the hint. , ... Accordlnnly, I purchased an absoluteij safe hnmmrrless shotgun nnd repaired with It to the woods, alone. Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I notice hn the first sn jerpont of the season ha been ceen off the M-Une coast by a reliable old jxlt named Drlnkwater." nrinfetvnfer' Well, that shows rretiy conclusively that you never can judge of a By a decision of tho Colorado supreme man's character or his habits by his-name court the city of Leadvllle Is likely to have money to burn for municipal pur poses without local taxation aud possibly a surplus to pay a dividend. The court holds that the city owns not only the surface of streets, but whatover wealth may be found beneath, Ore extracted from beneath tho surface must pay a royalty to tho city and the authorities expect to realize $2,000,000 a year from that source. Several leaders of the plain people are "Not a bit," responded the attendant flirting with the plutocrats In a shocking " ? won -m . tnuon "" manner. Charloy Towne Ib seeking a mil- lion or two among the oil wells of Texas. I Till: LBTTEH THAT SFAKIl M r.T. Ex-Governor Hogg of the Lone Star state ' . , , has accumulated a Vanderbllt pile. J. Ham . -'; ' " " ? " ' h Lewis of the stnte of Washlncton is curry- i 1 ,u""t,:.'i.7 'iJi t in nuui'ivii i vj " r uu tis a Brooklyn Eagle: Eve Though I am made from one of your own ribs. If I should die, I suppose you would marry ngaln? ... Adam If It were not to provide for such ap 4mrRency( then wljy w-as I created with a number of other ribs? Chicago Tribune: The youth who was smoking a cotfin nail near the monkey s cage took another one from his pocket. "Would It do anv harm." he nsked. "If I i snouid oner mm one or tnese.- Ing the tiger of Wall street with somo suc cess and tho esteemed ex-Senator Pettl- grew of South Dakota is said to have pulled $250,000 out of the Northern Pacific panic. If this thing goes on, what will become of the "plain people?" Senator McLaurln of South Carolina pours hot shot into the ranks of his party critics. "If re-elected," ho says, "my voice will be raised for those measures that make for human progress and human happiness In this world; measures that will unite and i ... . .... . , i. m t.t. , .h. She grew so thin that her wprscr half 'f nlarm felt a heavy toucn Anon she would rise and pare the fin r with n restless, uneasy pace. And she'll My to the window at ever' souni of a vehicle on the street. Then resume her walk with a nervous trea t on her loyal but weary feet She had written three, long, long weeks b- fore for n hat to come C. O. D From nn eastern city, for home-sold goods were not toney enough for she. And she waited In vain for the wagon to come with the package she longed f"' o She could paralyze nil the neighbor dnmes witn ner norai ana icatnery snow- knit men into a wider recognition of the brotherhood of man. My voice will go, not to Invoke party prejudice and party pas sion, not to preach a gospel of despair, not to help to create bitterness, but to assist In Its elimination," Pretty good repub Hcan doctrine for a democrat. Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland Is mak ing local tax-shlrkcrs Bweat blood. The other day ho tackled the Bolt Line railroad of Cleveland, which had been assessed at $16,000 to $20,000 for many years. After the president and receiver of the road had claimed that $19,000 was a full valuation, bocause it Is earning no profits, Mayor Johnson breezily asscrtod that the value of property Is what It will sell for and de clared that he and the receiver tried to buy it some years ago for $600,000 and could not get It for that price. He con cluded It Is not worth any less now. Being challenged to pay $400,000 for It, he started to write a check for the amount on the spot and the magnates backed down at once. And he'd nsk every day what wa eating her, and she'd answer him: "Noth lng much." And he noticed the rings 'round her Saturn eyes grow deeper and deeper, and He'd sometimes shrink In Instinctive wa from the touch of her cold, dank hand. Ho feared that tho Joys of connubial life he had pictured while yet he sought To win her heart nnd.profpectlve cash and her coveted hand were not Ah golden bright as she'd hoped they'd be that she wrestled with deep rfgret That she wasn't back In the old home nest and a prize In the market yet. One day while brushing hi butlnets coa the garment In which he tolled. There dropped from the pocket onto ihe floor a letter all frayed nnd soiled. And she picked it up nnd she almos' screamed In a torrent of rage to see The superscription, though worn quite dim In her own neat chir-og-ra-fee. Then she understood that her sleepless nights nnd her days of acute dls'rr-a Were due to her absent-minded dear hit. awful forgettulness That he was the cause of the sighs tear to which she had given vent While waiting returns In such dire us pense from the letter that never wen- Although the full census returns from. the agricultural districts of England have not yet been complied It Is possible to get from them some Idea of the extent of the exodus from the vlllagoa to the towns that has been going on of late years, and this does not appear to have been so great as has generally been bolleved. Taking Nor folk, for Instance, as a typically agricul tural county, It seems that out of ITS vil lages, in seven districts, fifty-seven show an increase of population and 120 a de crease, whllo two remain stationary. Strik ing un average, 'he total decrease Is at tho rate of 4 per cent. Tbla showing, of course, I not at all satisfactory to the farmer, who finds It difficult to get all the labor ho wantt, but It Is something very different from the alleged detolatlon of which so much hat been written. ForrlKM Praia Ilnrrnl. Philadelphia Ledger. The refusal to permit a single live mon' goose to be landed In this country seems absurd, but when we remember Australia's experience with the English rabbit, the de' structlon caused In Massachutetts by the progeny of a few moths which etcaped from a scientist's study, our own plague of English sparrows and the ravages of this aamo mongoose In Jamaica, where It was originally imported from Its home In India, It mutt be acknowledged that no precau tions against the Introduction of forrlia pcttt can be too etrtngect. Boys' $2.50 Suit Sale ONE DAY ONLY, SATURDAY, (Todays 133 two-piece sprinj: and sunuiU'i' weight suits. $a on sale, for one day, or while they last, at Jf'J.nO. Tho sue are from 0 to 13 years, and are suits that have boon sold at $3.00, 93.50 and $1.00. Hut to make room for our mid summer assortment of flannels and servos and washes, we would like to clean out this small lot of suits. They are made of union oassimoros. etc. Well made and sub Rtantial fabrics, and at this price are rxi'SlWI, VAI. UES. Come nnd got one early, before thoy aro all none. '0 CLOTHING KITS LIKE Ol'KS. Browning, King&Co. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager. f